Saturday, February 19, 2011

Oldest Computer Mouse

It helps you while typing words on a word processor. It aids in drawing and painting a nice digital picture. With a simple click, it connects you to Internet. Yes, I am talking about computer mouse that almost permeates every sphere of our gadget-savvy life. But, have you ever wondered how the first computer mouse looked like? Who invented it?

The earliest computer mouse was very different from what we see now. The first mouse was actually a wooden shell with two metal wheels. A wire tail came out of this system. At that time, this device was named as ‘X-Y position indicator for a display system’.

Douglas Engelbart, a researcher at the Stanford Research Institute invented this earliest precursor to modern day mouse. Without realizing its value, the institute licensed the device to Apple for “something like $40,000”.

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